Lena Sommestad is a Swedish Social Democratic politician and economic historian. She was Minister for the Environment in the Ministry of Sustainable Development in the Cabinet of Göran Persson from 2002 to 2006.
The Norwegian Organisation for Sexual and Gender Diversity is the oldest, largest and preeminent Norwegian member organization representing the interests of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons in Norway.
Inger Hagerup was a Norwegian writer, playwright and poet. She is considered one of the greatest Norwegian poets of the 20th century.
Harriet Holter was a Norwegian social psychologist.
Helga Marie Hernes is a German-born Norwegian political scientist, diplomat, and politician for the Labour Party.
Dag Øistein Endsjø is a Norwegian professor of religious studies and expert in human rights at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is the most translated Norwegian scholar in religion, published in thirteen languages.
The Södertälje case was an alleged case of satanic ritual abuse that led to prosecution and convictions in Sweden in the early 1990s. In 1992 a 15-year-old girl from Södertälje accused her parents of sexual abuse and of murdering children in satanic rituals. She also claimed that she and her younger sister were sold for prostitution in sex clubs in Stockholm. Both parents were convicted but in a retrial the mother was freed and the father's sentence was reduced.
The Gender War is a documentary in two parts by journalist Evin Rubar on radical feminism in Sweden and its influence on Swedish politics. It was produced by Nordisk Film and broadcast by Sveriges Television in the series Dokument inifrån on 15 and 22 May 2005. The Gender War was also part of Evin Rubar being awarded the TV award Kristallen and Sveriges Television's equality award the same year.
Domestic violence in Norway is officially referred to as vold i nære relasjoner. It is defined as:
Violence or threats of violence against persons who are or have been married or who live or have lived in marriage-like relationships. It also applies to siblings, children, parents, grandparents and others in a straight ascending or descending line, as well as adoptive-, foster- and step-relationships. The exercise of violence is independent of location.
Margunn Bjørnholt is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor of sociology at the University of Bergen. Her research has focused on financial institutions, management and working life and later on gender equality, migration and violence. She has also worked as a consultant, a civil servant, served as an expert to the European Commission and been president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights.
Kjersti Horn is a Norwegian theater director and storyboard artist, the daughter of scenographer Per Kristian Horn and the actor, theater director and politician for the Norwegian Labour Party (AP), Ellen Horn, partner with Sound designer and composer Erik Hedin, and half sister of Jazz singer and actor Emilie Stoesen Christensen. She was born with the bone disease "spondylo-epyphyfyseal-dysplasi".
Crime in Norway is countered by Norway's law enforcement agencies.
Marie Heiberg Simonsen is a Norwegian journalist who since 2003 has been political editor in Dagbladet. She has previously worked for Dagens Næringsliv and VG.
Karin Signhild Hermansson, better known as Kakan Hermansson, is a Swedish television presenter, radio host, comedian and artist. She has had her own television show on Sveriges Television (SVT) called Kaka på Kaka and has worked on shows for both Sveriges Radio and TV4. A graduate of the Stockholm art academy Konstfack, she works with a feminist art collective and has exhibited her art in various places. She calls herself a radical feminist and anarchist.
Yvonne Hirdman is a Swedish historian and gender researcher. She has received many awards for her work including the August Prize.
Maud Elisabeth Landby Eduards is a Swedish political scientist and gender studies scholar. She is professor emerita of political science at Stockholm University.
Tanja-Helena Dessislava Bergkvist is a Swedish mathematician and blogger. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics in 2007 at Stockholm University, and has served as a professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Uppsala University, and the Sigtunaskolan Humanistiska Läroverket. She has also worked as a researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Agency. She has gained notoriety for her conservative approach towards gender studies.
Solveig Karin Bø Vatnar is a Norwegian psychologist and violence researcher. She is a principal scientist and professor at Oslo University Hospital's center for security, prison and forensic psychiatry, and researches homicide perpetrated by intimate partners and family members. She has been a member of several royal commissions, i.e. government-appointed expert commissions.
The Women's Group Ottar is a Norwegian radical feminist women's organization founded in 1991. It has its historical roots in the Norwegian Marxist-Leninist movement of the 1970s and has been described as the most radical women's organization and "a final offshoot of 70s feminism". Ottar began as an offshoot of the Women's Front, and later, it splintered again, resulting in the creation of two new groups with explicitly trans-exclusionary profiles, Women's Declaration International (WDI) Norway and Kvinneaktivistene. The Women's Front described WDI as "transphobes." While mainly focused on combating pornography and prostitution from a radical feminist perspective, Ottar has also faced criticism from the Red Party, the Red Youth, LGBT+ rights groups and others for promoting or tolerating anti-trans and anti-Jewish views within its ranks, and some prominent members such as Kari Jaquesson have expressed support for trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF), declared themselves to be TERFs and engaged in doxxing and harassment of trans women by publishing pre-transition photos of them. Ottar has previously declared Jaquesson to be "politically solidly founded in Ottar's radical feminism." In 2024 Ottar faced strong criticism when the chair of its largest chapter referred to a Jewish woman as a "Zionist pig."
Transphobia in Norway has evolved over time. Since the late 20th century and into the early 21st century, acceptance of transgender people has greatly increased. Norway has made significant progress in transgender rights, with strong support from political parties ranging from the most left-wing to the Conservative Party. In the 2020s, Norway has seen an increase in the anti-gender movement, from both gender critical radical feminist groups and the far right. Recently, hate crimes against transgender people have increased, and several anti-trans groups campaign against transgender people. The 2024 Extremism Commission's report cited sources that pointed to "the connections between radical feminism and Christian conservatism" in relation to anti-trans activism, noting that "these are groups and individuals who use violent and dehumanizing language and are also threatening and extremely active."
